Ostara For A New Witch

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As a new witch you may not know a good simple ritual for this upcoming sabbat. This ritual was actually the very first ritual I did so it’s very good for someone who is just getting started!

I guess I should start with what is Ostara. Ostara is the pagan holiday that celebrates the start of spring. The goddess is in her maiden for and young fresh energy fills the air with a sense of joy from the return of longer warmer days. Everything is being reborn; plants, animals, absolutely everything! We can use this theme of rebirth in our ritual as we celebrate the spring.

Secondly, I want to talk about what Ostara is to me. Many people take the sabbats very seriously, as do I when the time is right however Ostara is completely different to me. During Ostara, the theme is is youthfulness and I think that we should use this in our celebration. I see this time as a time to play. Get outside and fly a kite! Play tag and run around! Go for a walk in the woods! Try to find flowers, or rabbits! Make a basket full for sweet treats and toys for your loved ones, dye eggs or even do an egg hunt. BUT WAIT! MARIA THAT SOUNDS LIKE EASTER WHICH IS A CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY!!! Well actually all of those things were taken from pagan traditions of the celebration of Ostara so it’s perfectly fine and even encouraged to celebrate this way! But anyway just get out and play! And once the playing is done here is a little ritual to end your Ostara.

For Ostara I chose to do this outside near one of my favorite trees so I could connect with the earth.

Set up your altar(can be very very simple)

Make sure you have a green candle to

represent fertility

Cast your circle

Stare at the flame of the green candle and

appreciate the earths return to spring

Then speak or think the words of this poem

(For just you use terms for yourself but if you are doing it with others use the plural)

“Here my/our call oh Mother Earth

So I/we may celebrate rebirth

As I/we watch this candle burn

Life will now start to return

All the young are at their starts

I/We keep their youth within my/our hearts

And pledge on this Ostara day

That my/our life/lives be filled with play

With equal day and equal night

The light will show the dark its might

And in its victory so sweet

I/we welcome the returning heat

Rejoice and shout, dance and sing

Honor today the start of spring

Give me/us sky’s so bright and blue

To start this lovely year anew

And as I/we sit under this tree

Please send me/us your good energy

Blessed be”

Then sit for a while. Think about all the things in your life that need to be refreshed and channel your energy to them. Make resolutions about what this new time will bring.

Do whatever else you feel like you need to do within your circle and then close it.